Will Leap Second crash DB2?

Question: What is a leap second and how will it impact my DB2 servers ? I have a bunch of DB2 servers hosted on Red Hat Linux 6. Answer: It’s important to understand the definition of a leap second . I’m quoting from Wikipedia “A leap second is a one-second adjustment that is occasionally applied to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) in order to keep its time of day close to the mean solar time, or UT1. Without such a correction, time reckoned by Earth's rotation drifts away from atomic time because of irregularities in the Earth's rate of rotation. Since... Read more →